The Dark Gift behind-the-scenes 2

The Vampire seduction and attack scenes from "The Dark Gift". Digital Vision Entertainment. We had production & animation offices at Hollywood/La Brea, Highland/Fountain and near Beverly Drive/Wilshire. Clients included ABC, Are You Experienced?, Buena Vista TV, Canal +, Columbia Pictures, Disney, IBM, Paramount Pictures, Propaganda Films, PBS, Playboy, Sony, RAI, and Warner Bros. 10 features and a lot of network animation. Geoffrey de Valois is an award-winning American writer/director/editor and visual effects producer with over 25 years experience.. Since 2022 he's created over 30 short films using generative AI, culminating in his award-winning 2024 film ''AI Anthology''. His new 2025 film "Beyond Time" combines live action and AI, and has 7 IMDB Awards. Overall he has 468 IMDB film credits and 21 Awards, directing 10 features with 16 recorded songs and 4 published books. He’s written, produced, directed, shot, and edited over 500 television programs, commercials, films, promos, business videos, documentaries, and computer animation sequences. In 2019 he completed directing his 7th feature film “The Girl From Provence", a psychological thriller set in Los Angeles and Provence, France. It was the opening night film at the 16th Annual Other Venice Film Festival. In 2019 he re-released his updated documentary "Decommissioning Our Nuclear Future with Ralph Nader". And he created the pro immigration short dance film “No Entry". His art photography book "LA Woman" is available on blurb and amazon. His book "Computer Visions" was published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. His fashion and makeup "how-to" videos have over 3 million views on youtube. His personal channel has over a million views. The 2008 release of the public television docu-drama “Love Has The Right To Choose - The Emma B. Freeman Story” is now available on vimeo. His films “Computer Visions” and “Computer Dreams” were the top selling non-fiction laserdiscs in Japan in 1991. They have been updated and expanded and released again in 2008 as part of: “The History of Computer Animation”. He holds a B.A. in psychology, and an M.A. in film production with additional studies in art, poetry, and journalism. After working on "Halloween 3", his background includes staff positions at Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic in visual effects on "Star Wars - Return of the Jedi", "Star Trek - Search For Spock", and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”. He worked at IBM as a television writer/producer/director/editor. He was the Production Manager/1st AD on the 1984 survival feature film “Massive Retaliation”. He was the pre-Production Manager on the 1984 feature “Smooth Talk” with Laura Dern. He was the Line Producer on the 1996 feature “Follow Me Home” with Alfre Woodard and Salma Hayek. He produced and directed six computer animation sequences for Columbia Pictures’ NBC sci-fi miniseries “Something Is Out There”, produced the titles and animation for the David Lynch/Mark Frost FOX network series “American Chronicles”, and the FOX network special “Coca-Cola Pop Music Backstage Pass To Summer with Cher”, and produced the “Roy Sands - Stunt Scientist” character for FOX. He produced the graphics and animation for Propaganda Films’ popular “John Lithgow’s Kid Sized Concert”. Mr. de Valois produced the morph creature animations in “Seed People”, a feature film for Paramount Pictures. He was the keynote speaker at Video Expo LA in 1990, and was a judge and keynote speaker at FIFOM – the 1990 and 1992 Montreal International Computer Graphics Film Festivals. His programs have been shown in over 70 countries, and have won numerous awards, including Best Documentary at both the Mill Valley Film Festival and San Jose "Joey" Awards, 3 Cine Golden Eagles, 2 Houston International Film Festival Gold Awards, 2 US Film Festival Gold Awards, and several CINDY and TELLY Awards. His 1994 “Stud” was probably the first commercial Mandarin/English language hip-hop music video, and was widely played across China along with his controversial NightFire video “Jump It”. The 1995 16mm cult black comedy “The Vampire Conspiracy” which debuted at the Cannes Film Market, was the first-full length feature film to be streamed on the internet. His academic career includes 10 years teaching film and television production at San Francisco State, San Jose State, Cal Poly Humboldt, College of the Redwoods, Mills College, and Cal State Los Angeles. Proud creator of the Retro Vampire Universe.